A former House of Representatives Committee Chairman on Sports, Godfrey Gaiya, has called for the sack of Super Eagles Technical Adviser Gernot Rohr following the team’s poor outing in Austria.
The Super Eagles ended their Tuesday’s friendly with Tunisia’s Carthage Eagles 1-1, four days after they lost 0-1 to the Desert Foxes of Algeria.
Gaiya in an interview with NAN wondered what would happen in a competitive match if the “highly rated” coach could not defeat any African opponent in both friendlies played in Austria.
“We need another coach …
The Federal Government through the Ministry of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management and Social Development has donated relief materials to victims of flood disaster in 10 local government areas of Kogi.
The Minister of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management and Social Development, Hajia Sadiya Farouq, disclosed this during a ceremony to mark the distribution of the items at Government House, Lokoja.
Farouq said that she was in Kogi to convey the sympathy of the Federal Government to the Government and people of the State over the flood that occurred in some areas of the State.
“Kogi State, having the confluence of the …
Nigeria’s former President, Goodluck Jonathan has broken his silence on the ongoing #EndSARS protest in the country.
Jonathan had not spoken since the protest kicked off over a week ago.
But on Tuesday, the former President sued for restraint as the protests against the operation of Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS) continued to spread across the country.
He said: “I implore everyone to exercise restraint as we walk through these challenging times.”
The former President stressed that no Nigerian life should be lost during peaceful protests.
He stated this in a …
The espionage case against detained Australian writer Yang Hengjun has reached a Beijing court, China’s foreign ministry spokesman said Monday, in a rare update on a man held incommunicado for months since his arrest last year.
The relationship between China and Australia has been perforated by spy scandals and trade rows, with both sides accusing the other of harassing citizens as diplomatic leverage.
Chinese-born Yang Jun — who also goes by the pen name Yang Hengjun — was taken into custody in January 2019 during a rare …
Hundreds of residents were evacuated on Monday as Polish military divers began a delicate operation to defuse a massive World War II bomb in a channel near the Baltic Sea.
The five-tonne device — nicknamed “Tallboy” and also known as an “earthquake bomb” — was dropped by the Royal Air Force in an attack on a Nazi warship in 1945.
It was discovered last year during dredging close to the port city of Swinoujscie — formerly Swinemunde, a part of Germany — in the far northwest of Poland.
“It’s a world first. Nobody has ever defused a Tallboy that is …
Hyundai Motor Group appointed 49 year-old Euisun Chung as group chairman on Wednesday, succeeding his octogenarian father Moog-Koo Chung.
The appointment formally cemented Euisun’s succession to the leadership of the world’s fifth-largest automaker conglomerate from his octogenarian father.
In the first generational handover at the South Korean automobile giant in 20 years, Hyundai Motor Group said Euisun, had been promoted to chairman from executive vice chairman.
His father, Mong-Koo, was made honorary chairman.
Euisun Chung has played an increasingly visible leadership role since September 2018 when he was promoted to executive …
Twitter said Friday it will take down calls for violence starting after polls close on US election day and slap warnings on premature victory claims to fight efforts to undermine the election.
When it comes to a winner in any race, Twitter will require an announcement by an election official or a public projection from at least two authoritative, national news outlets making independent election calls.
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The California tech giant will also invite people to add their thoughts to retweets instead of just mindlessly sharing, according to legal lead …
The reading for the June-August period compared with an unemployment rate of 4.1 percent for May to July, the Office for National Statistic said in a statement.
Early estimates for September meanwhile “suggest that there is little change in the number of payroll employees in the UK; up 20,000 compared with August”, the ONS said.
Since the start of the UK pandemic in March, the number of payroll employees has dived by a net 673,000, the data showed.
“The …
Members of the Civilian JTF told AFP that insurgents on Monday seized 15 farmers working on their irrigation fields in Ngwom village, 14 kilometers north of Maiduguri, and cut their throats.
The insurgents captured the farmers as they tended to their crops during the early afternoon, giving them no room to escape, said another member Ibrahim Liman who gave …
Nigeria’s head of police Mohammad Adamu has established a new Special Weapons And Tactics (SWAT) squad to ‘fill the gaps’ left by the notorious police unit Federal Special Anti-robbery squad (FSARS).
The force spokesman Frank Mba said the IGP had also ordered all personnel of the disbanded SARS to report at force headquarters in Abuja for debriefing.
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“The Inspector-General of Police, IGP M.A. Adamu, NPM, mni has, today, 13th October, 2020, in accordance with Section 18 (10) of the Police Act 2020, ordered all personnel of the defunct SARS …
The Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS) now known as the Special Weapons And Tactics (SWAT) unit of the Nigeria Police Force is one of the 14 units under the Force Criminal Investigation Department (FCID). The unit is charged with the prevention and investigation of armed robbery, one of the most serious crimes committed on Nigerian soil. While most Nigerians, including many policemen, cannot identify any of the other 13 sections under the FCID, the acronym SARS is known countrywide. Frequently dressed in plain clothes, the operatives of SARS have proven to be the most unruly and brutal unit in any security …
Militants also attacked reinforcements sent to the base on Tuesday morning, killing three soldiers and wounding 10, according to a provisional tally.
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